corrections is fantastic!!!

Do you recommend new LPNS with no experience start off working in a correctional setting?

I would like to work in a prison once i get my Lpn. So tell me how does it work. like what does the LPN do?

NO!!! The pace and amount of knowledge required is not good for ANY brand new nurse, not even if you have your BSN. I agree with the other poster saying that your assessment skillls have to be above top notch, but with that your BS meter has to be in overdrive at all times. The inmates have nothing better to do all day than to figure out ways to manipulate the system and you are what stands between them and the drugs that they want.
You also have to be very comfortable in being able to say "NO" and mean it. In school they teach you that you are to do everything to make the patient comfortable and attend to their needs, but in a prison they are always inmates first and patients second. Security takes center stage over everything else. If you are presented with a medical emergency, the area has to be secured before medical can take action. A lot of nurses I have known have a big problem with that, but it is for the safety of all involved.

If you don't want to deal with manipulative behaviours stay where you are.

Oh no you didn't.

Maritesa you indicated that you had refused to work drug rehab because of manipulative behaviours.

I answered you very straightforward.

As to my profile, when I see my name it has corrections listed under nursing specialty. Perhaps you do not see that?

Also I would like to point out that you thanked me for a response on Dec 1 2008 in IM harrassment/co's doing nothing. Twice.

I have no idea how a straight forward answer with no emoticons or even incendiary punctuation got you so angry.